Sundance508
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I would like to celebrate MLK day by talking about his close friend, Jackie Robinson.
It has been said that Jackie Robinson had as much to do with the progress of civil rights as MLK himself. For you see, baseball had been a big influence of the culture during that time, and Jackie was the first black to be allowed to play in MLB. Before accepting the role, the owner of the Dodgers, Branch Rickie, took Robinson aside and made him understand what confronted him. He would be verbally and physically assaulted. He would receive death threats for himself and his family. He would be the focal point for every racist group in America and it would probably continue for the tenure of his MLB career. Branch Rickie then added, that he must take it and not fight back in any way, at least for the first few years or the project would have to come to an end.
And that is exactly what happened, and exactly what he did. America saw his class, his dignity, and the fact that he was the best player on the team, if not in all of MLB, and it won over converts. More than one of the players on the team and around the team, including fans, said that Jackie Robinson made them better men as he helped them overcome racism.
Interestingly, Jackie Robinson was also a Republican, for he thought that the doctrine of self help was exactly what the black community needed to hear. Of course, he was not a partisan shill. In fact, he did not like Barry Goldwater in the least.
“I’m a black man first,” he once calmly stated, while appearing on a 1968 television program, “an American second, and then I will support a political party—third.”
Like the vast majority of black Republicans in 1964, Robinson vehemently opposed Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. That year, he chaired a chapter of “Republicans for Johnson” and likened black Goldwater supporters to racial sellouts and “Uncle Toms.” But his rejection of Goldwater did not affect his affiliation—in fact, he remained a Republican, and in July 1964 he helped found the National Negro Republican Assembly, a national black Republican protest organization that grew out of the nightmarish experience of black Republicans at the 1964 Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco
So the next time someone tries to sell you the notion that all Republicans are racists via their mindless and toxic partisan drivil, tell them this. In fact, Hillary once referred to herself as a "Goldwater girl".
Like most moderates aka politically correct republicans you are way too sensitive to charges of racism...get over it...most pay no attention to those who cry 'racism' that term is being relegated to the dustbin of history as it should have been long ago.
Meanwhile the science of genetics continues to advance which proves things liberals and politiccally correct morons get all nervous about.
You think I'm PC? LOL.
No, I'm just making the point that the left is just poisoning the minds of people with race, for it is ONLY the left who continually mentions it.
It is like Obama. He refuses to mention the words "Islamic terrorist" so as not to incite violence against Muslims but then in the next breath says how racist the system is and wonders why innocent police are being shot around the country.
I see good but mis-informed people trying to fight progressives by using their terminology and tactics....not a good method...the only way to make any progress against the progressives is for everyone to understand all the attempts to demonize by yelling racist need to be ignored.
Another good method is to educate folks into the fact that everyone is not equal, that democracy is just mob rule....one cannot talk any sense to a liberal...best to ignore them.
'The self-obsession with multiculturalism among our politicians bears an additional deceitful name, namely the misnomer of creating a “welcoming culture”, although the real name that needs to be used in plain German is “the culture of self-elimination,” “the culture of guilt,” or “the culture of death,” or the “culture of self-hate.” The locution “welcoming culture” has nothing in common with the ancient European culture of welcome. Today’s welcoming culture is merely a word used by liberals for the failed communist project. What former Communists in Eastern Europe could not achieve by force, the System in place now is attempting to achieve through the ideology of multiculturalism. Communism fell apart in Eastern Europe because a better version came to fruition, albeit under a different name, in Western Europe. The System is convinced that the European peoples must be replaced in a multicultural super state by non-European migrants who in turn could constantly be reproduced as a new and perishable commodity.'
http://american3rdposition.com/?p=16102
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